PERFORMANCES | July 15-20, 2025

New in 2025, the Opera Seme Festival includes 2 weeks of unique events featuring and inspired by Italian opera. Performances are open to the public with purchase of a ticket. See the calendar of events below for more information.

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TUESDAY 15 JULY

Opera Seme Faculty Concert Recital

21:30 | Casa della Musica
Free admission.

Singers: Tracelyn Gesteland, Blythe Gaissert, Matthew Schloneger, Alison Trainer, Gianni Bruschi

Pianists: Lorenzo Magi, Djordje Nesic, Paula Gelpi, Santiago Fernandez

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WEDNESDAY 16 JULY

Opera Arias

19:30 | Piazza Grande
Free admission.

Singers: Lauren Mahoney, Bailey Barefoot, Jack Delman, Ethan Eliafan, Emily Harrington, Anastasia Inglima, John Jovicich, Olivia Kellett, Cadie Logston, Steiger Manson, Ramon Mosate, Emalyn Nicholson, Michelle Perez, Hannah Prince, Daniela Reyes Flores, Karah Rhoades, Evan Richards, Katelynn Shepherd, Elise Strain, Wanda Sullivan, Daisha Venson

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FRIDAY 18 JULY

Opera Scenes and Arias

21:00 | Casa della Musica

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Puccini Cabaret: Theatre Show

21:30 | Casa della Musica
€10 Admission, Free for under 18

With Francesco Botti and Caterina Cidda Maldesi.
Giacomo Puccini was one of the main figures of Italian musical theatre, who lived between the 19th and 20th centuries. He was a composer appreciated worldwide for having created immortal operas such as Tosca, Madama Butterfly and La Bohème. PUCCINI CABARET is a video reading by Francesco Botti and Caterina Cidda Maldesi. Curiosities and anecdotes about the life of one of the greatest musicians of all time. He described himself as a skilled “hunter of wild birds, opera librettos and beautiful women” and, despite his early failures, he became a reference for opera. The letters to Corinna, his daily life, work, dreams and doubts, family, friends, collaborators and colleagues.

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SATURDAY 19 JULY

Opera Scenes and Arias

21:00 | Casa della Musica

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Opera on Contact: Dance Show

21:30 | Casa della Musica
€10 Admission, Free for under 18

With Priscilla Pizziol and Edoardo Sgambato. 
A dance performance, conceived by Consuelo Pacheco and Leonardo Lambruschini, that aims to bring classical and lyrical sonority, played in contemporary form, into movement through the principles of Contact Improvisation dance. A postmodern dance practice that explores movement through weight and touch. The physical contact between the dancers, in relation to gravity, inertia and friction, in assonance and dissonance with the music, shapes and creates poetic images.

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SUNDAY 20 JULY

Poems in Music – Homage to Ravel

21:30 | Casa della Musica
€10 Admission, Free for under 18

Performers: Elvira Bekova (violin, Kazakhstan) Leonora Baldelli (piano, Italy)
“Poems in Music - Homage to Ravel” made its debut at the Moscow Conservatory, in the prestigious Tchaikovsky Hall. 
The program includes Prokofiev's Sonata, Chausson's Poem and pays homage to Joseph Maurice Ravel–whose 150th birth anniversary falls in 2025–with Ravel's Sonata and the famous Tzigane. Ravel, besides being influenced by Debussy, also drew inspiration from Russian, Spanish and American jazz music, elements that are reflected in his works. In addition to the unquestionable value of the repertoire, the concert is distinguished by the extraordinary quality of the performers, offering a program of great artistic depth. 
Elvira Bekova has built a reputation as an outstanding soloist and chamber musician, distinguished by the breadth of her repertoire and performances at major festivals and concert halls in the UK, continental Europe, the USA, Canada, the Middle East and Australia.
Leonora Baldelli is an internationally renowned concert artist who has performed all over the world, from Carnegie Hall in New York to the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, as well as in Europe, Japan, the United States and South America.